Sean Smith wrote: > > Rereading your note...Just measure from your bridge to 37 centimeters and > see what fret it lands on. Maybe an e flat? > > Sean > Sean,
Thanks for your help.But I'm not following you. If I measure from my bridge...? ...you mean on a lute with 60ms string length? Wouldn't a smaller instrument have strings with different diameters? Stuart > Sean Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stuart, > > I always lose count of the apostrophes. Do you mean a C: a tone below the > standard descant (D) lute? If so, I tune my 40cm descant there all the time. > My duet partner tunes his 44cm lute to C also. > > Two thirds of a 60cm is 40 cms --which is where your 7th fret is, right?-- > and that's a D on my fretboard. > > best regards, > Sean > > > > > Stuart Walsh wrote: > Actually I'm not really thinking of a treble lute, but any small gut (or > nylon) - strung instrument with a string length of about 37 cms. > > I know there are string calculators that can sort this out - but just > from experience can anyone suggest a viable note for the top string. > I'd like it to be c''. Is that a possibility or unrealistic? > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > -- > > > -- > >
